Tuesdays are the days I write and post my Going Paperless tips. It’s funny, but I find that on Tuesdays, without really thinking about it, I wear one of the cool t-shirts the good folks at Evernote sent me some back when I became their Paperless Lifestyle ambassador. I don’t really think about, it just…
After having gone paperless for a while, one of the big payoffs I discovered was the ability to have “paperless” meetings. I don’t know about you, but my days sometimes feel like they are mostly spent in meetings. Years ago, while driving into work, back when I lived in L.A., I heard a great quote…
I have a tendency toward list-making. The desire to create a list increases in direct proportion to how busy I am and how cluttered my mind feels. I’ll resist but eventually, the need for creating a list becomes overpowering and I just have to get it on paper. Except that, in my efforts to live…
When I began to go paperless, I came with a plan. I had the tools I needed to get started. I had a process in mind for handling paper that I received. I had some cool ideas. But it was my intention to go slowly. I wasn’t going to go through my existing filing cabinet…
A few items of utter awesome I’ve encountered over the last few days, but haven’t had time to post about: Ultima Forever coming to the iPad I don’t play video games any more. I haven’t had time for years. But I have written how my favorite video game franchise was the Ultima series of games,…
As a blogger, when I first decided to go paperless nearly 2 years ago, I told everyone. I not only wrote blog posts about it, but I told friends, family and coworkers. I made it pretty clear, I think, that as nature abhors a vacuum, I abhor paper. Of course, being outspoken on the subject…
When I started going paperless, it wasn’t my only intention to get rid of paper. It seemed to me by converting things from paper to digital format and having that information available anywhere, I could improve the efficiency and speed with which I could get things done. This notion has proven particularly handy after I…
In this week’s Going Paperless post, I am answering the questions that folks asked in the comments to last week’s “open forum” post. I looks like I got seven questions, covering a fairly wide range of topics. I’ve answered them in the order they appeared below. I’ve tried to provide a general topic area for…
One of the great things about going paperless with Evernote is the ability to access your paperless data from no matter where you are. Â What follows are four tips for using your paperless data on the go, away from home. Also, note that for next week’s column, I’m going to try an open forum. See…
As I indicated in this week’s Going Paperless post, this is the thread where you can ask me questions about paperless lifestyle. Ask anything you like about paperless lifestyle (it can be about the software, Evernote, Skitch, or something else); or hardware (scanners, iPhones, staple removers, shredders); or even process. Post your question in the…
My attempt to go paperless is more than just an effort to convert my existing paper to digital format. That conversion is important because it helps to establish a baseline. But what I hope to achieve by going paperless is to eliminate the need for paper most of what I do. Not everything that comes into my…
I had a number of people suggest that I talk about my process for archiving my paperless data and since we are rapidly approaching the end of spring, I thought I’d do it as a kind of spring cleaning post. But first a confession: I don’t archive my paperless data. At least, not yet. I’ve…